Works in Progress: I am currently interested in and working on several papers focusing on atheism. 

 

A Powerpoint presentation from a lecture I gave in Los Angeles to the Atheists United group:

Teaching Atheism

 

draft:  Problems for the Miracles of Jesus

draft:  God Wouldn't Do Miracles

    God Wouldn't Do Miracles--Slide Presentation

 

Here are some of my publications: 

McCormick, Matt,  "Rethinking God:  Comments on Ted Drange's 'Is 'God exists' Cognitive?', Philo, forthcoming.

McCormmick, Matt,   "Against the Immortality of the Soul," in Death And Anti-Death, Volume 2: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing.  ed. Charles Tandy.  Palo Alto, California: Ria University Press, 2004.

McCormick, Matt, “The Paradox of Divine Agency,”  in The Impossibility of God, Michael Martin and Rick Monier, eds.  Amherst, New York:  Prometheus Books, 2003.

 

McCormick, Matt, "Why God Cannot Think:  Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness," Philo, Vol. 3, Number 1, Spring-Summer 2000.

        Reprinted in The Impossibility of God, Michael Martin and Rick Monier, eds.  Amherst, New York:  Prometheus Books, 2003. 

 

McCormick, Matt, “Another Look at Kant’s Subjective Deduction,”  Rockefeller Prize Winner for Best Unpublished Essay, Philosophy and Value Theory, forthcoming.

 

McCormick, Matt, “Questions about Functionalism in Kant’s Philosophy of Mind:  Lessons for Cognitive Science,”  Journal of Experimental and Theoretic Artificial Intelligence.  Vol. 15, No. 2, April-June 2003, 255-266.

  

McCormick, Matt, "Is It Wrong to Play Violent Video Games?,"  Ethics and Information Technology.  Volume 3, No. 4, 2001.